July 02, 2004
Life Sentence
Down the pub, as you do, you mean all sorts of people. The other night we met Mac. Real name David Macmillan according to his prison release form shown here. He was drunk and we were getting there too so can we be sure of his story? It's certainly supported by the detail on the form - he spent 25 years in prison. He probably deserved to be a little drunk.
Everybody has their story and I guess 25 years meant he was given "Life or at least 25 years" but I don't know how parole fitted in to that. The background, according to Mac, was LSD and a death and he wouldn't grass on the perp and so did the full stretch. He said it was Operation Julie which was a big drugs bust in 1977 but there is not much info on the net about it. I could always buy the book though and see if Mac turns up next Tuesday as we suggested he might.
